Hummingbird Chicks Observed for the First Time Pretending to be Caterpillars to Avoid Being Eaten

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. The day-old bird, smaller than a pinky finger, had brown fuzz all over its body. When Falk and Taylor walked closer to the nest, the chick began twitching […] The post Hummingbird Chicks Observed for the First Time Pretending to be Caterpillars to Avoid Being Eaten appeared first on Good News Network.

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